• ECONOMY
    Euronext will not raise its bid for Hellenic Exchanges

    Euronext CEO Stephane Boujnah rejected the possibility of improving or changing the price for the acquisition of Hellenic Exchanges, in the context of the optional public offer running from October 6 up to November 17, during a press conference he gave in Athens on Monday.

  • HISTORY
    21 October 2025: This day in history

    1805: Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats the combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson is shot and killed during the battle. 1854: Florence Nightingale, with a staff of 38 nurses, is sent to the Crimean War 1944: US troops capture Aachen, the first large German city to fall in World War II 1948: UN […]

  • WORLD
    Everything we know about the Louvre jewellery heist

    The Louvre Museum in Paris has been forced to close while police investigate a brazen heist which targeted France’s priceless crown jewels. Thieves wielding power tools broke into the world’s most visited museum in broad daylight, before escaping on scooters with eight extremely valuable items of jewellery. Here is what we know about the crime […]

  • AUTO MOTO
    The vintage Mini Cooper that conquered the Sahara

    I was on the subway on my way to the office when YouTube’s algorithm recommended a video from “The Mini Diaries.” Its protagonists: a 1976 Mini Cooper named Bob and its driver, somewhere in the Sahara Desert. On my phone screen, I watched the rugged landscape unfold, with the tiny car climbing hills and reaching villages in […]

  • HISTORY
    20 October 2025: This day in history

    1097: The first Crusaders arrive in Antioch, Ancient Syria, during the First Crusade 1603: Chinese uprising in the Philippines fails after 23,000 people are killed 1803: US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase 1917: US suffragette Alice Paul begins a seven-month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the Women’s Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment […]

  • CYPRUS
    CySTAT on most important economic developments

    The most important economic developments for the Cyprus Economy, for the latest months up to August 2025, are included in the bimonthly bulletin «Monthly Economic Developments» the Statistical Service of Cyprus has announced.  In a press release it says that Manufacturing Production during the period January-July 2025 recorded an increase of 3,5% compared to January-July 2024. […]

  • HISTORY
    19 October 2025: This day in history

    202 BC: Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca and the Carthaginian army are defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus, ending the Second Punic War 1781: British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown at 2 p.m., effectively ending the American Revolutionary War 1926: Russian […]

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